Last week we left Castle Douglas’s Carolyn Yates in late-1980s Lancashire as she contemplated a new career as a learning skills consultant with education authorities across the world.
Her acclaimed programme for unlocking children’s abilities began with her own education at a free-thinking Rudolph Steiner School in Hertfordshire and a strict Moravian church school near Derby.
She gained a Masters in Science Education and taught in tough schools around Manchester where the pupils’ general disinterest in science convinced her there must be better ways to engage young minds.
